Comdial Scout II Users Guide

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2.10  Testing the Coverage Range
Your digital wireless telephone will continue to operate effectively as 
you move some distance away from the base unit.  Many circum
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stances affect the maximum distance that you can travel away from 
the base unit’s location.  Among these are walls and other obstruc
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tions that separate you from the base unit’s location.  It is a good 
practice to test the maximum coverage range that your digital 
wireless telephone delivers when...

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Note: If you should wander out of range while on a call, you will lose 
voice contact with your party but your handset will keep its display 
and status lights active for approximately 20 seconds.  During this 20 
second time period, you can step back in range and resume your con
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versation.  After this approximate 20 second time period, the hand-
set’s display shows NO SERVICE, the handset sounds three tone 
bursts, and the telephone drops the call. 

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3.  MAKING CALLS
When you wish to make a call, you must press the Ta l k button to 
make the handset active and then select a line or the intercom.  After 
you press Ta l k, the display provides you with several pieces of infor
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mation.  The display first shows the Acquiring Link message.  If the 
telephone can complete your call, the display then shows the line you 
have selected.  If your telephone cannot complete the call, the display 
shows a message...

Making Calls
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Section 3.9, Overriding a Call or a Do Not Disturb Condition at 
Another Telephone (Executive Override)
Section 3.10, Making a Subdued Off-Hook Voice Announcement 
(SOHVA)
3.1  Dialing Automatically
This feature provides speed dialing using programmable buttons 
where you have previously stored numbers.  Since you usually store a 
line choice as part of a speed dial number, line selection is automatic 
with speed dialing.  Note:  This user’s guide discusses speed dial pro...

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With your station at idle, you can use the following procedure to auto-
matically dial a personal or system speed dial number that is stored at 
a dial pad location:
1.  lift handset and press Ta l k (if necessary),
2.  dial code for desired personal speed dial number (0–9), or– 
3.  press * and then dial code for desired system speed dial  
number (100 – 299),
Note: Remember, it is very common for your digital wireless tele-
phone to automatically select a line...

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3.3  Redialing a Previously Dialed 
Number   
If the last number you have called is busy or is not answering, you can 
redial it once.  The system temporarily saves the first 16 digits of this 
last manually dialed number for your redial use.
You will overwrite a temporary system-saved number with subse-
quent dialing activity.  If you have need to permanently save the first 
16 digits of the last manually dialed number for later redial, ask your 
system installer about...

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If your system has line groups, access them as follows:
1.  lift handset and press Ta l k (if necessary),
2.  press button to select intercom (if necessary),
3.  dial desired line group access code: 
                    9 = line group 1 
80 through 89 = line groups 2 through 11  
60 through 64 = line groups 12 through 16
4.  listen for outside dial tone,
5.  dial desired number,
6.  listen for called party to answer.
3.5  Waiting for a Line (Queuing)
If all the...

Making Calls
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When line group is free, your telephone sounds several short tone 
bursts. 
 When you hear this,
•  lift handset, hear dial tone, and place call.
To cancel line group queuing,
1.  lift handset and press Ta l k (if necessary),
2.  press button to select intercom (if necessary),
3.  dial # 6 and hang up.
3.6  Making Intercom Calls
You can dial an intercom extension manually from the dial pad or 
automatically using a direct station select (DSS) button that you have...

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To tone call automatically,
1.  lift handset and press Ta l k (if necessary),
2.  press DSS button (called telephone will ring).
Note:  The following instructions assume a voice-first default setting.  
 Any user can change a call to a tone signaling for that call simply by 
pressing the Intercom button again after dialing the extension number 
or by pressing the DSS button again.
To voice announce manually,
1.  lift handset and press Ta l k (if necessary),
2....

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To camp on at any busy, do not disturb, or ring no-answer station,
1.  dial * 6.
Your telephone immediately hangs up.  When the station you called 
becomes available, your telephone will ring with five short tone 
bursts. 
 When you hear this,
2.  lift handset and press Ta l k (if necessary),
3.  press button to select intercom.  The other telephone will start 
ringing. 
 
If you do not select the intercom after the ringback tones within the 
time limit set by the...